UID:
edocfu_9959236465502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (281 p.)
Ausgabe:
Repr. with new pref. 1992.
ISBN:
1-282-04548-2
,
9786612045486
,
1-4426-7881-X
Serie:
Heritage
Inhalt:
Doug Owram analyses the various phases of this development, examining in particular the writings - historical, scientific, journalistic, and promotional - that illuminate one of the most significant movements in the history of nineteenth-century Canada.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
1. A far and distant corner of the Empire: the image of Rupert's Land before 1850 -- 2. New worlds to conquer: the opening of the expansionist campaign, 1856-57 -- 3. A means to empire: Canada's reassessment of the West, 1857-69 -- 4. Conspiracy and rebellion: the Red River resistance, 1869-70 -- 5. The geography of empire: the quest for settlers in the 1870s -- 6. The character of empire: the Britain of the West -- 7. John Macoun's Eden: the final stage of expansionism, 1878-83 -- 8. Disillusionment: regional discontent in the 1880s -- 9. The West as past: the foundations of western history.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-8020-7390-5
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
History.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442678811
